Speaker 1: What kind of mug you got those that the shape
Speaker 1: nice cute kind of give an owl. I thought it
Speaker 1: was owl for a time.
Speaker 2: It kind of does look like an hour.
Speaker 3: I had like a weird horror one and I actually
Speaker 3: changed it to this one in case somebody saw it.
Speaker 1: Wait, what's the weird horror it said?
Speaker 2: It said not blood on it, which I thought was
Speaker 2: a little weird.
Speaker 4: Well, now I did immediately assume that you're drinking blood
Speaker 4: out of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Mallory, any weird cups on your I.
Speaker 5: Mean, I have my standard white women water bottle over here.
Speaker 6: We got to stick together. We got to stick together.
Speaker 6: Hydrate my white sisters behind. I appreciate it. We really
Speaker 6: we need to all have to stay hydrate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, the only thing.
Speaker 5: That's going to get us through focus is I was like.
Speaker 1: The one thing that I didn't realize. I was just like,
Speaker 1: as a dude, how how much it helps your skin
Speaker 1: to drink it of water?
Speaker 5: We've been on that ship for a long time. Welcome.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, I mean like I've been definitely the last few years.
Speaker 1: But I just remember, like a younger male coworker at
Speaker 1: like a job, like my previous job was like, like,
Speaker 1: have you tried drinking more water? Have you tried water
Speaker 1: because you have like you have great skin, like you
Speaker 1: have no wrinkles stuff, But like tried drink you could
Speaker 1: use And.
Speaker 4: I was I noticed that when you smile, the rest
Speaker 4: of your face like takes a while to unsmile because
Speaker 4: I think you might be dehydrated.
Speaker 1: Man, have facial edema or something.
Speaker 4: Your skin moves like a second after the red your
Speaker 4: facial muscles. Hello the Internet, and welcome to season four weight,
Speaker 4: Episode three of Dedi's Guys, What's production of iHeartRadio is
Speaker 4: a podcast where you take a deep dive into America
Speaker 4: share consciousness. And it is Wednesday, October first, twenty five,
Speaker 4: damn spooky season half begun.
Speaker 1: They're so man, Okay, here we go. It's October first
Speaker 1: means it's National Jiffy Mixed Day, National Walk to School Day,
Speaker 1: National Pumpkin Seed Day, National Coffee with a cop No,
Speaker 1: National fire pump Day. Yes we fucked with Dalmatians of Firefighters.
Speaker 1: National Pumpkins Spice Day, National Green City Day, Random Acts
Speaker 1: of Poetry Day, National Black Dog Day, Shoutow my Dog,
Speaker 1: All black Dog, National Hair Day, National Homemade Cookies.
Speaker 7: Day, damn lot.
Speaker 1: They're getting it in. Yeah, they tried to sneak in
Speaker 1: the coffee with a cop thing. I'm like almost almost.
Speaker 1: What is it? Are they gonna buy you a coffee?
Speaker 1: You're gonna buy a cop cop buy your local police
Speaker 1: officer a coffee? The fuck out of here. I'mready paying
Speaker 1: for your stupid ass F two fifty. What the fuck
Speaker 1: are you talking about?
Speaker 4: You don't want to make the guys who walk around
Speaker 4: with guns, who are already terrified all the time, a
Speaker 4: little bit more jittery.
Speaker 1: Hey man, what a coffee? Okay, my bad, My bad,
Speaker 1: My bad.
Speaker 7: He doesn't need right here.
Speaker 4: My name is Jack O'Brien ak Potatoes O'Brien n and
Speaker 4: I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co host,
Speaker 4: mister Miles Grass.
Speaker 1: This Miles Gray.
Speaker 8: I'm just an average kid with an average life. I
Speaker 8: work at Laser Tag and then I get high. All
Speaker 8: I want to do is be alone. When I cleaned
Speaker 8: the pizza dome. But why do I always feel like
Speaker 8: I'm in the Twilight Zone and I always feel like
Speaker 8: Doctor Dray's watching me.
Speaker 1: It's given me anxiety, all right, Shout out to Johnny
Speaker 1: Davis out there.
Speaker 7: Yes.
Speaker 1: I told the anecdote about when I worked at the
Speaker 1: Laser Tag birthday place and doctor Dre just shut the
Speaker 1: door with me and him in the room watching me
Speaker 1: clean up. He said nothing, wait he shut the door.
Speaker 1: He fucking bro, this shit was. It was creepy, bro
Speaker 1: that creepy came in the room. I was a sid
Speaker 1: probably eighteen seventeen at the time, came in this party room,
Speaker 1: closed the door. He was like, yes, I just parbaby,
Speaker 1: sat down and watched me clean up all the garbage.
Speaker 1: Didn't say anything, and then I walked.
Speaker 7: The hook away.
Speaker 4: You work like the way you say ship. I'm just
Speaker 4: trying to get the subtext of what I don't know.
Speaker 4: Couldn't help, but notice you cleaning up.
Speaker 1: There's a few different roads. All of them are fucked up.
Speaker 1: And that's what are you a fucking scout for people
Speaker 1: who work at laser Tag birthday places. He was like, hey, man,
Speaker 1: don't want to sign you like. I like the energy
Speaker 1: you're given in there when you clean up those plates.
Speaker 4: Like Miles were thrilled to be joined in our third
Speaker 4: and fourth seats by the host of the very popular
Speaker 4: book podcasts Reading Glasses and the new book show Reading
Speaker 4: Smut from the Maximum Phone Network. Please welcome to this show, Mallory, O'Meara,
Speaker 4: and Bria.
Speaker 5: I can tell you're a fellow Irish person because you're
Speaker 5: the only person who's pronounced my last name correctly. Oh Mara, Yeah,
Speaker 5: everyone says, Ohmeira. And you definitely have spices in your
Speaker 5: food if you can. If you can't pronounce my last name.
Speaker 7: I have not.
Speaker 4: I've never I will eat food and say, oh my god,
Speaker 4: what is that and they'll be like, salt.
Speaker 1: Okay, wow, someone studied abroad.
Speaker 4: Amazing guess on your part that Jack O'Brien is Irish. Also,
Speaker 4: you know your.
Speaker 2: Stuff potato potatoes?
Speaker 9: Did Yeah you didn't even like potato, my brogue come
Speaker 9: out and try to cover it up.
Speaker 1: You know, potatoes O'Brien a real.
Speaker 5: Dish that is delicious dish.
Speaker 4: Delicious dish that is, especially if you put this special
Speaker 4: salt on it. Oh yeah, onions pretty basic.
Speaker 5: As far as we go flavor wise.
Speaker 1: So that's right.
Speaker 4: Well, we're thrilled to have you. Congratulations on the new podcast.
Speaker 4: Reading smut does what it says on the tin, Yeah, sorry,
Speaker 4: jacket there.
Speaker 1: The origin of it could potentially be from a place
Speaker 1: called Jack's yeah in Manhattan. Wow, So I'm just saying
Speaker 1: Jack o'brown or anyway, Sorry.
Speaker 4: Don't dig too deep or you're gonna find something you know,
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. Yeah, you're gonna Yeah, you're gonna be powerful.
Speaker 1: People are involved. Man, you might want to leave that alone.
Speaker 4: How how has it been going from a straightforward reading
Speaker 4: podcast to uh, I guess it's still pretty straightforward to
Speaker 4: read smut, but.
Speaker 5: Do you think one would think, Uh, I'll more talk
Speaker 5: about genitals in this section of the book worlds than
Speaker 5: what we're normally used to. But it's been a lot
Speaker 5: of fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, are you do you both like smut? Or is
Speaker 1: that kind of a thing where it's like, oh, this
Speaker 1: is a whole other gen't we really didn't probably tap into.
Speaker 3: I think I'm like more of the nube to it,
Speaker 3: like I'm I just we started reading it like so
Speaker 3: our other show, Reading Glasses. We don't really do book
Speaker 3: clubs or anything, but we did a couple of like
Speaker 3: special book clubs with books and they were really popular
Speaker 3: and we were like, oh, maybe we should just see
Speaker 3: if people want to be reading more of these, And
Speaker 3: the more we talked about the more that people wanted
Speaker 3: to hear about it, so we just decided to dedicate
Speaker 3: the genres blowing up and Mallory can speak much more
Speaker 3: to it than I can. But it's sort of interesting
Speaker 3: to see why, like why are so many particularly women,
Speaker 3: but a lot of I mean you just said, you said, oh, fairly,
Speaker 3: you've read a smart book.
Speaker 2: Why are we picking up these books?
Speaker 1: I had to pick it up because this the description
Speaker 1: was so absurd that I was like, this is a book.
Speaker 1: This is an actual book someone wrote the words to.
Speaker 1: And last week someone was talking about Smutt. The book
Speaker 1: is called hallow Peen. Oh yeah, I think it's Holly
Speaker 1: Wilde is the author.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a lot of seasonal smut with you know,
Speaker 5: Christmas Smutt, Halloween Smutt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, with like a guy has like a rock candy
Speaker 1: penis in it. And I was like this is and
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, I mean like this is this is different.
Speaker 5: So I don't hate I don't hate it. Yeah, I
Speaker 5: mean the first the first book we ever did for
Speaker 5: the show was about a man who is actually a
Speaker 5: door and gets turned into a human man. So yeah,
Speaker 5: it's a pretty popular thing. I mean, it doesn't that's
Speaker 5: the fun thing about the genre is it doesn't take
Speaker 5: itself that seriously. A lot of corners of the literary
Speaker 5: world are very snooty, and the smut people are like, hey,
Speaker 5: you want to bang this gingerbread man, let's go really
Speaker 5: really silly, really fun. And I think that's why people
Speaker 5: get into it so much, is because it doesn't take
Speaker 5: itself seriously. There's no it's very welcoming.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like, yeah, it's like the scribbling of like
Speaker 1: rather than like painting. It's like, dude, do whatever the
Speaker 1: fuck you want. And it's actually very fun because there
Speaker 1: are no rules and you get to be that. The
Speaker 1: guy's is made a rock candy, he's dummy. Bears come out?
Speaker 1: What are you gonna do?
Speaker 5: Why not.
Speaker 7: Out? Is that real?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I can write. There's a few excerpts I was
Speaker 1: going to read.
Speaker 5: But anyway, reginitly do one where someone where Frosting came out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it was a bli one.
Speaker 1: Animal Frosting comes out.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Well he's a he's aware balloon animal. He sometimes
Speaker 5: is a man and sometimes he's a balloon animal. But
Speaker 5: you have to be careful, nothing sharp around him.
Speaker 4: Sure, is this a testament to like how bad men
Speaker 4: are there always has to be like some or Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'd rather be a were wolf door human that's.
Speaker 5: Five one one deep. Look into tinder and you're rushing
Speaker 5: towards the nearest door.
Speaker 1: Right, guy holding a fish.
Speaker 5: Yeah, once you see enough fish photos, a guy with
Speaker 5: the rock candy penis looks pretty good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: So it's just like like people's desire for truly consequence
Speaker 4: free sex that's like not tied to anything or any
Speaker 4: like per It's not going to remind you of the
Speaker 4: sex that you've had with people, right, it's like, just
Speaker 4: get me into a fantasy world where I don't have
Speaker 4: to be tied down by experience or expectations or anything.
Speaker 5: Yes, and the heroes are always very into the women.
Speaker 5: They're always like very feminists. They always have good jobs. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's it's a magical fantasy land clean bedrooms.
Speaker 2: But I will also say they are like medical men.
Speaker 3: There are real men, there are real women, like there
Speaker 3: are we don't read just like the fantasy ones, although
Speaker 3: that's obviously what's kind of popular right now, but yeah,
Speaker 3: there actually is like definitely a clean bedroom trend.
Speaker 1: Wow, Like authors like and then like how how is that?
Speaker 1: How you usually encounter that description, like a.
Speaker 5: Beautiful sheets, gorgeous curtains, very clean. You know, you date
Speaker 5: enough guys who have never washed their towels and don't
Speaker 5: have juvat covers or bed frames. And reading these books
Speaker 5: about these thousand year old fairies who have like two
Speaker 5: thousand thread couch sheets. Yeah, pretty pretty nice guys.
Speaker 4: You don't have to go to Jordan Peterson to have
Speaker 4: somebody imply that you should clean your bed, nerd. You
Speaker 4: can just read about your fucking balloon animals.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Wow, you'll get the same the same message.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's wild. I mean I one time I did
Speaker 1: have jeans I used as a towel.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I'm sorry in college, but you
Speaker 5: moved on. Yeah, you've moved on, You've evolved, you have
Speaker 5: I'm sure you have real towels now that I do.
Speaker 7: I have one.
Speaker 1: I have one.
Speaker 4: I have a dish towel that I've been using for
Speaker 4: about a week next to my computer, and you carry.
Speaker 5: It around on your shoulder like a chef.
Speaker 4: Miles this morning when we were recording and I used
Speaker 4: it to wipe my mouth. Thinks so highly of me.
Speaker 4: He was like, is that a song that your foot valid?
Speaker 4: Question though, I can't even imagine someone pulling a sock
Speaker 4: off their.
Speaker 5: Foot to what you haven't dated enough men.
Speaker 1: I've seen jeans used as towels. Man, sock isn't that bad,
Speaker 1: And I think.
Speaker 4: It's a worse article of clothing as a towel.
Speaker 5: And I've seen it.
Speaker 4: Sweater underwear, table knit sweater.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean it's rough out there, folk.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, isn't absorbent at all? Yeah, I just wipe
Speaker 1: your hands on.
Speaker 7: I don't care.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, Well, we're thrilled to have you. We're
Speaker 4: gonna get to know you a little bit better in
Speaker 4: a moment. First, a couple of things we're talking about.
Speaker 4: We have an update on the rapture, the great disappointment
Speaker 4: that happened last week.
Speaker 1: A second, we got a new date.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we got a new date. And amazingly he's just
Speaker 4: like picked one like next week. He's rescheduling this ship
Speaker 4: like somebody rescheduling a meeting they don't want to do.
Speaker 1: Let's push it out a week. We did not learn
Speaker 1: at all.
Speaker 4: A lot of time. I know didn't learn the lesson
Speaker 4: at all, But do.
Speaker 1: You need that much time? Because if they took the
Speaker 1: first one. Seriously, didn't they do all that prep work
Speaker 1: of selling their ship and leaving biblical note cards behind
Speaker 1: and all the other shit I saw on rapture.
Speaker 2: Talk people to care for their pets.
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe he did learn the lesson from the first one. Anyways,
Speaker 4: we'll talk about that. We'll talk about dynamic pricing, an
Speaker 4: exciting new innovation in capitalism where they can change the
Speaker 4: price based on you know, where you are, what they
Speaker 4: know about you. It turns out, and this is going
Speaker 4: to surprise everyone, that this new tool of capitalism is
Speaker 4: just going to be used in a predatory way that
Speaker 4: disadvantages the poor. I'm so surprised, I'm fucking my jaw
Speaker 4: is on the floor.
Speaker 1: I call it a consumer stress test, is how I
Speaker 1: talk about it.
Speaker 4: It is while trying to like research this subject and
Speaker 4: you have to get through like eight studies by libertarian
Speaker 4: think tanks being like this is fucking sick. Yeah, it's
Speaker 4: everybody to pay the exact right amount. We'll talk about
Speaker 4: the new contest from Jigsaw, Sorry mister beast, where you
Speaker 4: have to escape a burning building. The video is literally
Speaker 4: called would you risk dying? For five hundred thousand dollars?
Speaker 5: It's so fun to be alive. Guys, it's been so
Speaker 5: cool to be alive in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all that plenty more. But first, Mallorie Rio, we
Speaker 4: do like to ask our guests, what is something from
Speaker 4: your search history that's revealing about who you are?
Speaker 5: Well, almost all of my Google search is right now
Speaker 5: are how much protein is in insert food here. I
Speaker 5: am a meathead, so I'm a powerlifter and I eat
Speaker 5: a ton of protein every day. So the last thing
Speaker 5: I looked up was how much protein is in the
Speaker 5: sushi burrito I had for dinner last night. Turns out
Speaker 5: but pretty.
Speaker 4: Sick, and Google knew exactly which sushi burrito you had.
Speaker 4: You just said how much is in the sushi burrito?
Speaker 4: And they were like, oh, what's up, Mallory.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I kicked the low end and just assume it's
Speaker 5: kind of around there, which was like forty eight grams.
Speaker 7: Pretty great, Dan, What.
Speaker 1: Do you gotta do like your weight in grams of protein?
Speaker 1: Like at a minimum, what's such.
Speaker 5: Your weight times either point five or point eight and
Speaker 5: that's how many grams you need a day?
Speaker 1: Okay? Yeah for game for gains, I mean, if we're
Speaker 1: trying to make gains, here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, for Sick Gains.
Speaker 4: Chris Gaines, my favorite artist. I'm trying to figure out
Speaker 4: what happened to him.
Speaker 1: I'm bad at.
Speaker 4: Google, I should say so, but I haven't been able
Speaker 4: to find out when his next album's coming out.
Speaker 1: Mallory, what was your road to powerlifting? Is that just
Speaker 1: like you were you doing like sports?
Speaker 5: Or is somebody new I've been doing it for quite
Speaker 5: a few years now. I just saw someone doing it
Speaker 5: at the gym one day and it looked sick, and
Speaker 5: I wanted to do it, and I just got really
Speaker 5: into it.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, I just like, I just like, I just
Speaker 1: like a story like that. You're like, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm having that?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I saw and it looked really it looked really cool,
Speaker 5: and I said, I want to do that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, how about you, Aria, what's something from your search history?
Speaker 2: I have COVID right now, but we're all in different spots.
Speaker 3: It's okay, I can say that. I almost didn't say it,
Speaker 3: but then I was like, is that weird? Like it's weird.
Speaker 3: I didn't want to say it, like, but we all
Speaker 3: get sick, and I, uh, my friend. I was talking
Speaker 3: to my friend on the phone. She was like, you
Speaker 3: should do it an ivy at home.
Speaker 1: Do you know about this?
Speaker 2: He'll bring like a home IV and they'll do like
Speaker 2: wellness ones. This is maybe not real science.
Speaker 3: I will certainly admit that I don't know if it
Speaker 3: will help, But I was googling that because I'm gonna
Speaker 3: have someone come today and do a vitamin.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you feel done? This is this the thing? Like
Speaker 2: I feel like thought this was for people with hangovers?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know it from yeah.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know people who like, like there's a nurse
Speaker 1: in a friend group who will be like, I've got
Speaker 1: the I've got the bag, so tomorrow morning, like we'll
Speaker 1: hook everybody up. And you're like, Jesus, that's a lot
Speaker 1: of planning to just poison yourself.
Speaker 2: But have you heard of people doing it when they're
Speaker 2: sick though, Like that seems.
Speaker 1: Like yeah in the hospital. Well they're very popular at
Speaker 1: the hospital with people are doing too well.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think I was texting with the guy and he
Speaker 3: was like, well, I can come earlier, and I was like, well,
Speaker 3: I'm doing like a podcast, so I don't think that
Speaker 3: be weird, and he's like, I can do it while
Speaker 3: you're doing the podcast. I was like there's video that
Speaker 3: would be if I was just over here. I mean,
Speaker 3: but it would be maybe I feel like really pumped.
Speaker 1: Though, Are you pretty like I'm guessing pretty zapped from
Speaker 1: it if you're like googling, hay, can someone go to
Speaker 1: my house?
Speaker 2: And yeah, I am.
Speaker 3: Today I was feeling okay, and then today I'm in
Speaker 3: yesterday astory feeling worse. And I don't know when my
Speaker 3: friends have all these like people have weird ideas where
Speaker 3: they're like, COVID, this is how you get rid of it,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, maybe it's just an illness and it'll
Speaker 3: just run its course and then if I drink enough
Speaker 3: water and like take my vitamins. But I just decided
Speaker 3: to do it because I have a haunted house I
Speaker 3: want to go to this weekend.
Speaker 2: So I'm trying to incredible.
Speaker 1: That's actually where it's at. It's not that you're even
Speaker 1: like like willing to entertain the quasi science of it.
Speaker 1: You're just like I, if anything guarantees I'm going to
Speaker 1: this haunted house, I.
Speaker 2: Will do it. I'm going to try it. I'm going
Speaker 2: to try it.
Speaker 4: I do feel like the things that they do in hospitals,
Speaker 4: like people hospitals, especially you know as a to like
Speaker 4: I remet in was another one of the big things,
Speaker 4: which was I think a horse dewarming.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 4: I like that. You've gone with a treatment that at
Speaker 4: least I can be like, yeah, well they seem to
Speaker 4: think it's good in hospitals.
Speaker 2: So check back in with you.
Speaker 5: I'll let y'all know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not listen. I'm not totally a believer, but
Speaker 3: I am willing to try anything to get to go
Speaker 3: to the Haunted House.
Speaker 1: I want to it's the hanted House.
Speaker 3: Well, I go to a lot of honted houses, but
Speaker 3: this weekend I'm going to Knots. That's my favorite one,
Speaker 3: and I yeah, I do.
Speaker 2: I have tickets.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Hallieen, Horror Knights is really falling off.
Speaker 5: Can they hook you up to an ivy while you're
Speaker 5: at the Haunted House?
Speaker 7: That is?
Speaker 2: That is the scare, that's the trying and hoping the cast.
Speaker 1: Or you tell the characters You're like, I'm hooked up
Speaker 1: to an ivy, don't you pop out?
Speaker 4: What is something you guys think is underrated?
Speaker 5: Thick boys on romance, novel covers.
Speaker 1: Boys, any reference one I can look up right now
Speaker 1: to kind of get in.
Speaker 5: Well, there's the thing. There's been a big which is great,
Speaker 5: a big push for pody positivity in the romance world.
Speaker 5: So you've been seeing a lot of hot, sexy, thick
Speaker 5: ladies on romance novel covers. But all the guys there,
Speaker 5: all the chests they're still leaning on, are still very yeah,
Speaker 5: just normal, like very stereotypical, the fabio kind of guys.
Speaker 1: I want some I want to boys, yeah.
Speaker 2: And hairless. They tend to be a little bit hair.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I want I want a hairy thick man
Speaker 5: on a romance novel cover.
Speaker 7: That's what I want.
Speaker 1: Okay, wait, nobody's nobody's got the hairy thick boy cover
Speaker 1: at all.
Speaker 5: There's some, but it's for gay romance. So there's like
Speaker 5: two thick gay guys, but I want they can't boys.
Speaker 5: That's what I want. So that's I think it's really underrated.
Speaker 5: It's something that we've been noticing. I'm like, I see
Speaker 5: I got I got the thick girls, but.
Speaker 1: No boy, I'm looking for a thick hat male.
Speaker 5: Yes, please, there we go.
Speaker 1: Okay, Riah, how about you.
Speaker 2: Bria Mallory's really on brand and I am not. I
Speaker 2: was you know, you know what's underrated.
Speaker 7: I E.
Speaker 2: I got later.
Speaker 3: I work for drip Ivy. I find that people. I
Speaker 3: meet so many people in LA who are like, ugh,
Speaker 3: I hate small tack. I just want to get into
Speaker 3: the deep stuff. But I'm like, no, talk to me
Speaker 3: about the weather.
Speaker 2: I want to. I love talking about the weather. I
Speaker 2: love talking about the smallest minute things. And I at
Speaker 2: the dog park. That's pretty much all.
Speaker 3: I go to the dog park every day and we
Speaker 3: talk a lot about just the smallest stuff. Like I
Speaker 3: don't want to talk with a stranger about.
Speaker 2: Deep stuff or anything.
Speaker 1: Friends.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I yeah, exactly, Like I actually think the
Speaker 3: weather is really interesting.
Speaker 2: We all experience it together.
Speaker 3: Like we're all like we all have to make decisions
Speaker 3: based on the weather.
Speaker 2: We all like in l A. You know, it doesn't
Speaker 2: change that offense. When it does, it's like really exciting.
Speaker 2: Like I am.
Speaker 3: I think that people act like talking about the weather
Speaker 3: is like that's boring. It's like the you know, typical
Speaker 3: boring thing. No, I'm here to talk to people about
Speaker 3: the weather like I want to talk about the boring stuff.
Speaker 1: Isn't the challenge though, keeping a conversation about the weather
Speaker 1: alive from more than that never met me.
Speaker 2: I can keep a conversation about the weather.
Speaker 1: Let's try break this.
Speaker 4: I got you.
Speaker 1: You see that cloud yesterday?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, Oh my god, yes, ending of that
Speaker 3: was crazy.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: Yes, we had a cloud in the skies of Los Angeles.
Speaker 4: It's pretty crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and today zero clouds.
Speaker 1: What do you think it's gonna question?
Speaker 7: I am.
Speaker 3: I have hats that I haven't warn this year. It
Speaker 3: seems like last year this time it was already cold.
Speaker 1: You know what I do around this time, I start
Speaker 1: buying a lot of winter clothing because it's on sale
Speaker 1: for winter that usually doesn't come.
Speaker 2: That's really smart. Or you can buy the stuff so
Speaker 2: we can talk about that forever.
Speaker 4: But yeah, the deep stuff is where you get into trouble.
Speaker 1: I agree with that.
Speaker 4: Like the weather is a classic for a reason, Like
Speaker 4: there used to be rules of decorum that were, like
Speaker 4: you don't talk about politics and religion at like dinner,
Speaker 4: just with like people who you don't have to talk about,
Speaker 4: and instead you talk about the weather. And because everyone
Speaker 4: has to have a hot take, now everyone's like fuck
Speaker 4: talking about the weather. But it's a classic for a reason.
Speaker 3: Yeah, bring back to bring back shame, Like a little
Speaker 3: bit more shame about what you're willing to talk about
Speaker 3: in public.
Speaker 5: This is very funny to talk to come from two
Speaker 5: smut hosts the show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, because I guess the question you'd hate to
Speaker 1: hear something like kind of books you've been reading late?
Speaker 2: Oh my god?
Speaker 1: Yeah that is we actually comes cream. I think I'm
Speaker 1: not weird.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's like if people ask us about the news.
Speaker 4: I mean, I personally, like my heart, I'm just like,
Speaker 4: I don't want to talk about people who know we
Speaker 4: have a news podcast. They and like, I think that
Speaker 4: I'm going to want to talk about the news.
Speaker 5: You want to do your job for free with me
Speaker 5: right now?
Speaker 1: Exactly? Yeah, yeah, I just lie. It gets you meeting
Speaker 1: strangers and saying you work, even if you say you
Speaker 1: work on podcasts. Oh my god, no, never mind, I'm
Speaker 1: a balloon artist. Well.
Speaker 5: The worst is when it's not just when they want
Speaker 5: to talk about a stupid podcast, is when they want
Speaker 5: to pitch you their podcast idea that's never going to happen.
Speaker 5: And it's like me and my guy friends, they're so funny,
Speaker 5: and you know, I think we're just gonna we're just
Speaker 5: going to record ourselves hanging out. Wow, there's no shows
Speaker 5: that are like that.
Speaker 1: Extremely no barrier entry for guys talking about shit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and there aren't any podcasts like that. So you're
Speaker 4: you're gonna be first to market. Let's take a quick break,
Speaker 4: we'll come back. We'll talk about what you guys think
Speaker 4: is overrated and get into the news. And we're back,
Speaker 4: and we do like to ask our guests, what is
Speaker 4: something you think is overrated?
Speaker 1: Bria, you want to kick us off.
Speaker 2: I think it's the COVID brain. But I was like,
Speaker 2: I don't even have anything.
Speaker 3: You know what you know how I got COVID is
Speaker 3: because I was like staying out too late and hanging
Speaker 3: out with people and I'm in my forties, Like maybe
Speaker 3: that's overrated, Like why you staying out late? People seeing
Speaker 3: people seeing People's fine, but like nothing good happens when
Speaker 3: you're forty after a certain time.
Speaker 4: How late we're talking midnight, midnight? Okay, that's ambitious.
Speaker 2: Nothing good happens if you're over forty. Okay, go to bed,
Speaker 2: go to bed, go to bed.
Speaker 1: You're too I'm still I'm willing to think I'm still
Speaker 1: in the phase. Was like when you start doing afters, that's.
Speaker 2: When so you're like two am.
Speaker 1: But I also last time I was until two I
Speaker 1: can't even remember.
Speaker 2: I can't. Well, that's yeah, I was. I was doing.
Speaker 3: I was out to tish for like I was at
Speaker 3: like a festival.
Speaker 2: Things were happening, and I was out too late, and that.
Speaker 3: That's that's when I got sick. I think being out
Speaker 3: too late nothing good. You're not having productive conversations with people.
Speaker 3: People are just like screaming and spitting on any.
Speaker 5: About the weather. You're not talking about the weather that
Speaker 5: you're high on cocaine.
Speaker 1: It's been so fucking hot, dude.
Speaker 5: It's like the weather man being on coke and talking
Speaker 5: about the weather is such a funny concept.
Speaker 1: Really underrated podcast Coked out weather forecasts come on in
Speaker 1: I liked.
Speaker 4: I like the cinder rule. Just get home by midnight.
Speaker 4: You're gonna be all right. You won't be like dying
Speaker 4: the next day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 7: That's I like it.
Speaker 1: What a malory? What's something you think is overrated?
Speaker 5: Love triangles? I'm so sick of them. There's it's a
Speaker 5: big thing in the in the smut world, and like
Speaker 5: the romance world, it's always good.
Speaker 2: It's staying on brown I'm glad she's here.
Speaker 5: I got you. I got you. Because there's this big
Speaker 5: thing in the smut world where it's always there's two men.
Speaker 5: One is blonde and one has dark hair, and the
Speaker 5: one that is blonde seems to be nice at first,
Speaker 5: but it's really evil, and the one that is dark
Speaker 5: hair seems evil at first but is actually good and
Speaker 5: also fucks like a bullet train the girl. And then
Speaker 5: for a big, big chunk of the books, she's always like,
Speaker 5: I don't know what to do between golden boy and
Speaker 5: dark haired boy. And I'm it's so irritated to me.
Speaker 5: I'm so sick of the love triangles. Just fucking pick one,
Speaker 5: get on with the plot.
Speaker 1: It's I mean that, I mean that whole summer I
Speaker 1: turned pretty. It was just such a vocal point, was
Speaker 1: like the love recently, Yeah, what's your I can just
Speaker 1: tell from your exact.
Speaker 5: I like plot and trying to choose between two men
Speaker 5: is not a good story to me. That is not
Speaker 5: a fun plot, right right, right?
Speaker 1: It's which especially which brother, the older one the younger one.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, Yeah, I'd rather lay in the road.
Speaker 7: A pot.
Speaker 1: That was a movie, the program.
Speaker 7: I think they did that in.
Speaker 4: But in the program, did the Road on a full
Speaker 4: Moon come alive?
Speaker 1: And funck?
Speaker 5: Now you there you go. I'd be more the tarmac
Speaker 5: comes alive.
Speaker 1: Okay, his name is Mac.
Speaker 4: And turns into the road. It's just an idea, just
Speaker 4: spit on in there.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 4: Well, let's let's move on to the news.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 4: And I use the the word news very loosely. So
Speaker 4: last week everybody was obsessed with the rapture, and you know,
Speaker 4: when it didn't come, some people were disappointed, some were confused.
Speaker 7: I was.
Speaker 1: I was fucking shocked.
Speaker 5: I was really bummed out. I was hoping that there
Speaker 5: would be a lot less annoying people on this earth
Speaker 5: and yeah, they're still here.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I I was like, oh, finally, it's like when
Speaker 1: everyone leaves La for Coachella. Yeah, oh oh good, here
Speaker 1: we are. The city is better, thank you.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I thought there'd be more sales, but there hasn't been
Speaker 5: really anything.
Speaker 1: You know, if the corporations were in on it, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, maybe God does exist if they're still trying
Speaker 1: to get their profits into the last very last minute. Maybe,
Speaker 1: But yeah, that scammer ass pastor from South Africa that
Speaker 1: predicted that the rapture is gonna go down last week
Speaker 1: has now spoken for the first time since that wet
Speaker 1: fart of a prediction, and he is now saying, uh,
Speaker 1: it's actually it's actually next week. It turns out, oh nice.
Speaker 1: So he went on a YouTube like like any pastor
Speaker 1: who predicts the future does the go on a YouTube
Speaker 1: live stream to speak, and he basically said, he said
Speaker 1: something to the effect is like, ah, man, see the
Speaker 1: thing is I was follow here's it. Oh dude, I
Speaker 1: was following the Gregorian calendar. It's actually the Julian calendar.
Speaker 5: The time I'm always wait to meetings.
Speaker 1: So that means carry the one I mean October seventh
Speaker 1: or eighth.
Speaker 3: Well, depends on what part of the world you're in, right,
Speaker 3: if you're in like Australia, you know, but you'd.
Speaker 1: Still just a little flexibility there. But yeah, that for
Speaker 1: he said, quote the seventh and the eighth of October
Speaker 1: is the real feast of the trumpets. I'm a billion
Speaker 1: percent sure. Wow, that is so certain. He goes on
Speaker 1: to claim that he questioned God on why the event
Speaker 1: did not take place this week. He said to me
Speaker 1: days First of all, I don't think you could. You
Speaker 1: can talk spicy to God like that, really like, hey,
Speaker 1: what the fuck was up brought that was last week?
Speaker 5: Like really taking him to task.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm sure a.
Speaker 1: Guy like shut the fuck up home, it will be
Speaker 1: i'd said, quote it's days from now I will rapture
Speaker 1: my church.
Speaker 5: Well, if you could talk to God, why didn't he
Speaker 5: just do that to start?
Speaker 1: Thank you? This is what I always annoys me about
Speaker 1: people who say they talk to God, because you're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure. I went to Lutheran school. I was
Speaker 1: taught God is infallible like he he says he does.
Speaker 1: God doesn't fuck up. Okay, y'all fuck up? Now, if
Speaker 1: he's talking to God and he gave you the wrong date,
Speaker 1: you can go for like a make good to start
Speaker 1: to be like, hey, can you give me like the
Speaker 1: real date here? Because that's why I'm like, So that's
Speaker 1: what I guess. My question is who got it fucked up?
Speaker 1: Did God get it fucked up? Did you get it
Speaker 1: fucked up? And if you're getting if you're getting it
Speaker 1: fuck up, why are we listening to you?
Speaker 4: Is God like a fuck boy who like speaks in
Speaker 4: vague like terms, you know, and it's just like yeah,
Speaker 4: it's just like you know it's happening, and like gives
Speaker 4: you vague clues that you then have to like kind
Speaker 4: of piece together on your end.
Speaker 2: It's like an escape room.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, but you have to escape the earth. That's
Speaker 5: what you're trying to do.
Speaker 3: Are they going to like fly into the sky type
Speaker 3: rapture or is it they're gonna blink out?
Speaker 1: Like that's what I want to know. I want to know.
Speaker 1: It depends on which TikToker you talk to or whose
Speaker 1: content you look at, because there is hold on, let
Speaker 1: me pull this up because Brian the editor sent me
Speaker 1: one of these videos last week of a like this
Speaker 1: guy showing us how the rapture is gonna work and
Speaker 1: it's so janky. Hold on, let me pull this up
Speaker 1: because we should actually just watch this because it's really funny.
Speaker 4: I definitely have my preferences, Like obviously, I think the
Speaker 4: one that's popular right now is Obi wan Kenobi, just
Speaker 4: like pile of clothes, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: Maybe it's like a light like there, like there's economy
Speaker 5: rapture where you get sucked out of your clothes. There's
Speaker 5: business rapture where you get lifted up with all your clothes.
Speaker 4: So the really fun one is if you just get
Speaker 4: lifted like slowly, because then when they get to flex
Speaker 4: class everybody you get to like look at everybody in
Speaker 4: the eye as you were being chosen.
Speaker 1: I mean, it would be so fun.
Speaker 3: But why would people not just fall down and be dead,
Speaker 3: Like isn't it their souls? So wouldn't it just be
Speaker 3: like their bodies, their human bodies are left behind?
Speaker 4: Because where's the showmanship, you know, like where? But I
Speaker 4: do think it would be funny if, like, you know,
Speaker 4: God wasn't working when we had like things like fans
Speaker 4: and like ceilings, if people just like get stuck like
Speaker 4: a balloon like at the top. Yeah yeah, and if
Speaker 4: you burp you do actually like get it. He's like
Speaker 4: I was really counting on this like sort of fizzy
Speaker 4: lifting drink effect, and now everybody, like the people who
Speaker 4: burped just like kind of got stuck in between. They're
Speaker 4: just floating around in the sky like balloons that somebody
Speaker 4: let go on their birthday.
Speaker 3: They keep accidentally hitting like an Amazon delivery by a drone.
Speaker 1: Oh though, where is it?
Speaker 7: There's it?
Speaker 1: Oh God, this guy, there's this one creator who puts
Speaker 1: up so many fucking videos about the rapture.
Speaker 4: I saw one where like a couple was pushing their
Speaker 4: toddler on a swing and then the toddler disappeared. It's
Speaker 4: like swings forward and then comes back no toddler, but
Speaker 4: also no clothes. So they get raptured wearing what they're wearing.
Speaker 4: So that's just what you were in that.
Speaker 5: If you're over eighteen, they'll take your clothes off. For
Speaker 5: the kids, they leave the clothes.
Speaker 1: That's the video I tried. This guy has a ton
Speaker 1: of like copyright music, but it's like this really yanky,
Speaker 1: like like fucking roadblock style of animations or just a
Speaker 1: bunch of people going into the sky. But they do
Speaker 1: do the sky one. Oh yeah, they were flying up.
Speaker 1: It looked like it looks like the nuclear apocalypse or
Speaker 1: just like a bunch of you just see a bunch
Speaker 1: of lines going up in the air like miss.
Speaker 4: Just like straight up getting beamed up.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. But then Peter's there and it's like you're in,
Speaker 1: You're in, You're in. Where is your protective garments?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 5: Wait, so are they going up into space or or
Speaker 5: what point in the sky are they going to like disappear?
Speaker 4: Yeah, if it's not cloudy there what you're just like,
Speaker 4: where are you going?
Speaker 5: Are you hit?
Speaker 7: Like?
Speaker 5: What part of this are you getting? Out of Earth's orbit?
Speaker 8: Like?
Speaker 5: Where are you?
Speaker 1: It looks like you go to heaven. So here, like,
Speaker 1: don't scroll this, don't scroll. This is the rapture. Okay, okay, boom,
Speaker 1: bro don't scroll, don't scroll. Check it out, check it out.
Speaker 4: Boom good uh huh.
Speaker 1: Now this guy that's God. I think maybe he just returns.
Speaker 8: Boom, he returns boom, boom gone gone.
Speaker 1: The souls dead baby.
Speaker 4: Boom gone baby. So this does add that nice little drama.
Speaker 1: Couples that not everyone's going to be saved this rule.
Speaker 7: Boom.
Speaker 1: Look at that, y'all. Look at that dog that that
Speaker 1: server was there to just ask them how their meal
Speaker 1: was going. An they're gone.
Speaker 4: Shouldn't have been a weiter loser boom.
Speaker 1: Why do the servers always come right when you have
Speaker 1: a mouthful of food? Am I right?
Speaker 7: Ladies?
Speaker 4: Boom? Okay, this was a child talking to their parents
Speaker 4: and then the parents got raptured and the kid didn't.
Speaker 5: Really really sinning baby right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, shouldn't have been a bad little kid, asshole.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny because like the comments are like aw
Speaker 1: some form of like, yes, praise the Lord, I will
Speaker 1: be protected when the day comes, and other people like
Speaker 1: you haven't cited a single Bible verse. What are you
Speaker 1: even fucking saying?
Speaker 4: Did you hear the barb where he said damn, look
Speaker 4: at that baby boom boom.
Speaker 5: That's my favorite gospel.
Speaker 4: But the bro gospel that was pretty Yeah, the Book
Speaker 4: of Boom Yeah, yeah, yeah, boom, look at that baby
Speaker 4: boom boom.
Speaker 1: Let's try this costco cookie boom? This is good? How
Speaker 1: many booms we given this? Boom?
Speaker 3: It's like I'm gonna make that video. The video felt
Speaker 3: like it actually felt like an investment.
Speaker 1: Well, his output, the output is prolific, So I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't think this guy's got a lot of other
Speaker 5: things going on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this guy makes forty million dollars a year, but
Speaker 4: he does he.
Speaker 5: Does make forty million dollars year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is a new type of influencer that I'm
Speaker 4: just becoming acquainted with. After that one Mormon influencer who
Speaker 4: was at the Charlie Kirk assassination and like went live
Speaker 4: and was like yo, was like follow subscribe, like as
Speaker 4: he's dying behind him, like really wild hit like that.
Speaker 4: The you know, faith based religious influencers are are real,
Speaker 4: They are here, and they are bad at calling their shot.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you think one's gonna go live while being raptured?
Speaker 5: Do you think I would get a live stream from
Speaker 5: as they go? Oh my god?
Speaker 4: I mean he did present a pretty good, fun, dynamic option,
Speaker 4: right because it was both Obi wan Kenobi clothes and
Speaker 4: then also Scott Soul's shooting.
Speaker 1: Into the rockets. Yeah, I do, I.
Speaker 4: Do prefer I think I do think Charlie and the
Speaker 4: Chocolate Factory slowly floating upward and like realized being like whoa, whoa, you.
Speaker 5: Know, and like, hey, guys, coming to you live from
Speaker 5: the clouds.
Speaker 4: Right now, coming live from like twenty feet up. It's
Speaker 4: just like slowly lifting up so everybody.
Speaker 5: It takes like a wicked long time.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, yeah, like fucking three hours.
Speaker 4: Any idea how freezing it isn't all gone to damn.
Speaker 2: We could just see so many people naked though. That's
Speaker 2: like the benefit of staying.
Speaker 9: A little pervert going it's too late.
Speaker 1: I've already seen everything. I've already seen it all, all right.
Speaker 4: We did just want to talk about an exciting new
Speaker 4: development and capitalism, which is dynamic pricing. We've talked about
Speaker 4: it before. It seems like corporations keep trying to do
Speaker 4: this where they're like, you know how everybody loves surge
Speaker 4: pricing from what if that was everything everywhere, all at once.
Speaker 1: Or what was the optimistic version of this was like
Speaker 1: if it's slow, then we'll lower prices to aroduce more spending.
Speaker 1: And if it's and if it's too many people, then
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to crank it up a little bit
Speaker 1: to help slow things down. Like it was always meant
Speaker 1: to be like this, this helps optimize operations.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just further optimization, and that is why capitalism
Speaker 4: works so perfectly.
Speaker 5: Everything's going optimized.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 5: Love to live in total recall. It's so awesome and.
Speaker 1: Instead the rest Yet yeah yet, I'm still drinking La
Speaker 1: tapwater though any day.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 4: As with every innovation in late stage capitalism, it turns
Speaker 4: out dynamic pricing, which like I don't know, I guess,
Speaker 4: like part of me was like, Okay, they'll raise prices
Speaker 4: on like rich people who can afford it, and you know,
Speaker 4: lower prices on before.
Speaker 5: Wow, you really thought that was going to happen that's
Speaker 5: so adorable.
Speaker 4: And instead it is frequently used to take advantage of
Speaker 4: people with less money and therefore fewer options. Basically, this
Speaker 4: study found that so it says when consumers can easily
Speaker 4: find better deals elsewhere, they hold the power. However, AI
Speaker 4: tools are allowing sellers to become increasingly adept at uncovering
Speaker 4: how much flexibility their consumers have. This practice raises serious
Speaker 4: ethical concerns. Dynamic pricing allows companies to take advantage of
Speaker 4: customers who can't easily go elsewhere.
Speaker 1: Dollar stores have.
Speaker 4: Been doing this for a long time. Wow, So serving
Speaker 4: low income communities. The way dollar stores do it is
Speaker 4: they just what once people start going there, they just
Speaker 4: lower the quality lower and lower and lower.
Speaker 5: We are probably bunths away from it being legal to
Speaker 5: shoot poor people. So sure, this really does not surprise.
Speaker 1: Me a weird way depending on who don't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because they're tracking everything right, So like we're like
Speaker 3: they know, I've looked at this pair of pants like
Speaker 3: fifteen times, and they're like this bitch loves these pants,
Speaker 3: and so they'res gonna be like, I'm gonna up every
Speaker 3: time they have a pair of pants like that. They're
Speaker 3: gonna up the price if I'm looking like it totally
Speaker 3: makes sense because they're tracking what we're buying or they
Speaker 3: the they, but someone is tracking what we're buying in
Speaker 3: the websites.
Speaker 1: We're going on, well, it's an algorithm. It's probably like
Speaker 1: identifying a certain group of users.
Speaker 3: And they absolutely have you looked at anyone else's like
Speaker 3: Instagram feed it is it feels so foreign because for mine,
Speaker 3: it's like, oh, we know she loves lotions and like
Speaker 3: and really lazy clothes, so like that's like that's all
Speaker 3: mine is. When I look at someone else's, I'm like, oh, like,
Speaker 3: you don't get a million lotion ads vegetables, y, yeah,
Speaker 3: a lot of food.
Speaker 1: Would be lazy clothes. You're talking about like some form.
Speaker 5: Of on your body.
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 4: You would probably be okay because it seems like you
Speaker 4: might be a comparison shopper, like is like looks at
Speaker 4: different options. Whereas what they're taking advantages of people who
Speaker 4: just either like buy something quickly or like have to
Speaker 4: take the bus to shopping and need something desperately.
Speaker 5: To feed your children today.
Speaker 1: Well, give consumer a flexible consumer. We're just testing their flexibility. Okay.
Speaker 4: Just generally, it feels like as technology that I mean
Speaker 4: this study which was from a outlet that is associated
Speaker 4: with the University of Alberta, which like that's or maybe Calgary,
Speaker 4: which it's like you need to look outside of the
Speaker 4: United States to find people who are not being funded
Speaker 4: by libertarian organizations or like corporate organizations. But they said,
Speaker 4: as technology improves, the gap between high and low income
Speaker 4: consumers grows wider. And that just seems to be broadly
Speaker 4: the takeaway from this and everything that we've been seeing
Speaker 4: in the PASM.
Speaker 7: Yeah ten years.
Speaker 4: Our findings show that companies that take advantage of consumer
Speaker 4: inflexibility are likely to prosper, often at the expense of
Speaker 4: those with the least paradisues.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh we knew that already, big yah. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: their pieces as shit, you should say.
Speaker 5: There's a new book out that I really really like
Speaker 5: by one of my favorite authors, a new new Me
Speaker 5: by Helen Oemi, And part of the book is about that,
Speaker 5: about how because of algorithms, we all literally live on
Speaker 5: our own universes. We've shown different things, we pay different prices,
Speaker 5: we buy different things based off of our own specific algorithms,
Speaker 5: and it's fucking scary.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we were we just had uh you know,
Speaker 1: the etymology nerd on and like he was talking like
Speaker 1: in a previous talk that he did, was just talking
Speaker 1: about how the algorithms where people believe they have an identity,
Speaker 1: they don't realize that they've been sorted algorithmically into an
Speaker 1: identity where it's like, oh, yeah me, I'm like I
Speaker 1: like basketball, hip hop kind of thing, and they're like
Speaker 1: they've created like a sub a sub like subtab for
Speaker 1: your exact interests that where you thinking like, yeah, this
Speaker 1: is what I'm into. It's like, well, no, they're all
Speaker 1: nudging you towards all these things to just make it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so you'll buy stuff.
Speaker 4: Your a psychological profile created by marketing people.
Speaker 1: No, I like Wu tang ye. I mean I like
Speaker 1: before the algorithms.
Speaker 2: See, that's why you gotta we read really weird books.
Speaker 5: You got to keep up guessing. You gotta you gotta,
Speaker 5: you gotta, you gotta, you gotta weave around. You gotta
Speaker 5: make sure that they don't they don't know what to
Speaker 5: sell you, right.
Speaker 1: Exactly, Like I thought this guy was a straight like
Speaker 1: sports lover, and now he's really into animals.
Speaker 5: You've gotta never let them know your next move exactly.
Speaker 4: I mean, the fact that you guys have a successful
Speaker 4: book podcast does give me hope. It's like, you know,
Speaker 4: there are people.
Speaker 7: I think.
Speaker 4: It's like we're out here, we talk about the Democratic
Speaker 4: Party and like how they've reacted to Xoran's success, and
Speaker 4: just you know, there are there is a hunger for
Speaker 4: these things that just aren't officially allowed to exist. It's
Speaker 4: just yeah, there is this massive scaffolding of like all
Speaker 4: of these assumptions built in that are going to extract
Speaker 4: maximum profitability. And so that's all we can find in
Speaker 4: our you know, capitalism approved information distribution methods or of
Speaker 4: these like algorithms.
Speaker 5: So they're beating us down though right now. There the
Speaker 5: study just got released that it's only sixteen percent of
Speaker 5: Americans are reading for pleasure. Yeah, at any given day,
Speaker 5: which is down pretty far. It's because everyone's so fucking
Speaker 5: stressed out. Everyone's stressed out, everyone's like overworked. They don't
Speaker 5: have time to read because they're working three jobs to
Speaker 5: afford their dynamic priced groceries. Yeah, so less and less
Speaker 5: people are reading. So if you want to, you want
Speaker 5: to do a little active resistance, pick up a book.
Speaker 1: It is wild to even think because like even you know,
Speaker 1: like the times I am able to read for my
Speaker 1: own like leisure pleasure. It it's like feels wild that
Speaker 1: I'm like I'm sitting down in quiet and I'm holding
Speaker 1: a book versus like why are not doing something? Do
Speaker 1: I have the time?
Speaker 5: Are you making money?
Speaker 7: Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Or whatever like that. All that shit seeps in, and
Speaker 1: yet it's so true how much that can really like
Speaker 1: affect things, But it wasn't. The one thing is like
Speaker 1: there wasn't as big of a drop with like women
Speaker 1: who read I think we're pleasure.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, a podcast now, yeah, it's oti for
Speaker 4: their grind set.
Speaker 1: Okay, they don't have time to read. My grind set
Speaker 1: in that my life will come to a grinding to
Speaker 1: a halt as I do alone.
Speaker 5: And women are out here reading about fairy dicks.
Speaker 1: And yeah, yeah exactly. It's like the Avengers, like every
Speaker 1: they all we all have to come together, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean that the loun animal frosting people and
Speaker 1: the fucking bros potentially unite.
Speaker 4: All right, let's take a quick break and we'll come
Speaker 4: back and talk about something that people are consuming too
Speaker 4: much of, I would say, And that's mister beast we'll
Speaker 4: be right.
Speaker 7: Back and we're back.
Speaker 4: We're back, And mister Beast I do want like mister
Speaker 4: Beast could be the name of some manner of like
Speaker 4: protagonist in a fantasy novel.
Speaker 5: I would read that.
Speaker 1: I will say yeah, or it's like the it's like
Speaker 1: the hot Antichrist. It's like, oh, it's mister, it's.
Speaker 4: Just what beast from beauty and the beast like demand yes.
Speaker 2: In the bedrooms.
Speaker 5: They do love weird nicknames and smart books. So that's
Speaker 5: that kind of checks out.
Speaker 1: Oh, like the lover like that. The lovers like call
Speaker 1: me John.
Speaker 2: They always give.
Speaker 3: The women little like names, like little sparrow or like
Speaker 3: like very little deer, little usually a little helpless animal.
Speaker 1: I get, I get the desire for it. I can't
Speaker 1: a man just have a fucking towel, and like that's
Speaker 1: written into the books. Is that another thing people are
Speaker 1: seeking is to have to be called a little sparrow?
Speaker 5: I actually don't know, because it is. It is very
Speaker 5: I don't like it, gro grocery. If a man called
Speaker 5: me a little deer, I'd break his fucking jaw. But
Speaker 5: it's just like a narrative thing. To break it up
Speaker 5: a little bit, to kind.
Speaker 2: Of like the biliarity thing.
Speaker 3: I think it's like, like I, I'm so familiar with
Speaker 3: you and know you so well that I have a
Speaker 3: nickname that no one else has.
Speaker 2: I think it's like there's there's so much like a bout. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 2: I think there's a.
Speaker 3: Lot of I think maybe a lot of people aren't
Speaker 3: getting intimacy in their primary relationships. You're fine, they're finding
Speaker 3: it in these relationships in the books.
Speaker 4: I don't know why they're not getting intimacy. Men are
Speaker 4: in such a good place right, attractive. I mean, they're
Speaker 4: busy training for like how to talk to people and
Speaker 4: be a cool person. By watching mister Beast, do you
Speaker 4: feel like is in sort of a dom sub relationship
Speaker 4: with the world. He's like tying people up and like
Speaker 4: putting them in dangerous situations and being like, I might
Speaker 4: give you money if you don't die.
Speaker 5: He definitely is getting something out of this. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: mister Beast read Fifty Shades of Gray and was like,
Speaker 5: what if I do this to the world.
Speaker 4: Anyways, He's gotten a lot of shit for his fun
Speaker 4: new game Trapping a Man inside a goddamn burning building.
Speaker 5: I love that one. I played that so much when I.
Speaker 7: Was a kid.
Speaker 1: It's a hey, that's not funny, man. I know a
Speaker 1: guy in DC he had a really rough goal with fire, right,
Speaker 1: you know than he you know, my infant nearly died
Speaker 1: in a drug fire after mass shootings. Okay, sorry, I'm
Speaker 1: obstigated to play that bands from our favorite influencer, Bennie Johnson,
Speaker 1: who uh magnet something called drug drug fires after mass shootings.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but mister Beasts began his YouTube career with like
Speaker 4: doing kind of fake charity where he's like, I'll just
Speaker 4: like come up and straight up give you money, dog
Speaker 4: you want this? Yeah, and then slowly like turned himself
Speaker 4: into something between yeah, something between like the bad guys
Speaker 4: in Squid Game and Jigsaw. So he defended himself claiming
Speaker 4: that there was ventilation for the smoke and to kill
Speaker 4: switch to cut off the fires.
Speaker 5: Because that's what a fire really needs, is more ventilation.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: His other quote, I take safety more serious than you
Speaker 4: could ever imagine.
Speaker 1: Has anyone read anything about the making of the Beast
Speaker 1: game show on Amazon, Because it didn't sound like it
Speaker 1: sound like safety wasn't even like safe like tertiary concern.
Speaker 5: Didn't they like prevent a person a diabetic person from
Speaker 5: like getting her meds.
Speaker 1: There was a thing. There were a ton of things
Speaker 1: like that, also, like being exposed to like the cold
Speaker 1: and like like I don't know, just sleep it off man.
Speaker 4: And again the name of the video would you risk
Speaker 4: dying for five hundred thousand dollars? So that YouTube kind
Speaker 4: of has something like built into it.
Speaker 5: Again, this is this is it's like the Running Man.
Speaker 4: Right yeah, yeah, yeah, but like less entertaining, I would say,
Speaker 4: but this is like you talk to kids and like
Speaker 4: mister Beast is the most famous person that they can
Speaker 4: conceive of. Yeah, he's like the president of people under
Speaker 4: the age of twelve.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and he is no, he is like his eyes
Speaker 5: are so scary to me, right, they're dead no emotion.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, because he's just he's reached the end of
Speaker 1: like what you can do on YouTube. So it's like
Speaker 1: he's just killing people very soon.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he just has to do something like that.
Speaker 3: I mean, this does seem like the next step, right.
Speaker 1: I remember reading like defenses too, because like I think
Speaker 1: the guy was a stuntman, like a stunt performer who
Speaker 1: is into a last name of the Cincinnati stump exact.
Speaker 1: Actually a stuntments. But I remember like some people like
Speaker 1: it's fine guys like a professional like get out of
Speaker 1: fire for money person.
Speaker 2: That's a firefighter, and the suits.
Speaker 3: Yeah that stuntmen are like they're trained, but they get
Speaker 3: hurt on their jobs, like that is part of it.
Speaker 2: I mean, they don't get hurt.
Speaker 3: And often, like with fire stuff, it's very specific on
Speaker 3: what they're doing and like how much time they're allowed
Speaker 3: to be like in the fire. Like all this stuff
Speaker 3: is really like regulated within the industry.
Speaker 2: So and it just it doesn't sound like you.
Speaker 4: Can't you can't even imagine how seriously he can't You
Speaker 4: can't even imagine, like it's a your your brain is
Speaker 4: trying to think of it as somebody who's familiar with
Speaker 4: like the the actual film industry that's highly regulated as
Speaker 4: opposed to this bullshit, and like you can't even like
Speaker 4: possibly conceive of like how seriously he takes it.
Speaker 3: I feel right next he's just gonna pile of money
Speaker 3: and he's like, go get the money, Go get.
Speaker 1: The money you can get before it all burns burns.
Speaker 5: Yeah, how long do we all think it's going to
Speaker 5: be before he actually kills somebody? Is it a matter
Speaker 5: of months? Is it a matter of years? Like how
Speaker 5: closer we to this?
Speaker 4: It's really a race between the NDA's and like how
Speaker 4: rich he's gotten, you know, to like to get out
Speaker 4: of any problems.
Speaker 1: The way this video starts, dude, he's got there's a
Speaker 1: guy tied up with a fire burning behind him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they could just leave this whole thing where he's like,
Speaker 1: hey man, right here with him, one person who's going
Speaker 1: to die for like maybe half a million, are you
Speaker 1: guys ready.
Speaker 5: Like fifty three million or fifty four million people watch this?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Is the pile of money behind him? I was kidding there, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, go look back, you're praying me. This is gonna
Speaker 1: be crazy. Old man is literally in a burning building.
Speaker 1: Oh shut the fuck up. Also, you know what, I realized,
Speaker 1: this isn't a real fire, like it's under control because
Speaker 1: it's all gas. It's like it's all gas. It's like
Speaker 1: I don't think he's actually burning a structure down. It's
Speaker 1: like there's flames around you.
Speaker 4: You need to get in the YouTube comments prompt my.
Speaker 1: Yeah fast, this isn't even an existential participant faced not
Speaker 1: even real fire, not even a real fire anyways.
Speaker 4: The problem people have isn't uh that they're a safety
Speaker 4: precautions that's or that the fire isn't real. Obviously those
Speaker 4: things would be legally necessary. I think it's the whole
Speaker 4: premise of a rich guy humiliating non rich people by
Speaker 4: subjecting them to life threatening ordeals which they go along
Speaker 4: with in the hopes of attaining financial security. That feels
Speaker 4: like it's like, that feels like cartoonishly evil. Yeah, it's
Speaker 4: like sort of a thing that if you made it
Speaker 4: up ten years ago, everyone would be like, yeah, I
Speaker 4: don't think so, Like that's a little bit over the top.
Speaker 5: One hundred years ago, mister Beasts would have been like, hey, guys,
Speaker 5: I got this woman here tied to these train tracks.
Speaker 5: Let's see if you can get out.
Speaker 2: Like it's just it is.
Speaker 5: It is over the top, like laughably cartoonishly evil.
Speaker 1: I think actually one hundred years ago hit being like, Hi,
Speaker 1: welcome to the Triangle Shirt Waist Factory. I'm mister Beast.
Speaker 1: I run this facility.
Speaker 5: How many girls could get out?
Speaker 1: You have no options at all except to work for
Speaker 1: me in these dire conditions. And I hate that fucking
Speaker 1: Upton Sinclair. But that's what I think that's probably where.
Speaker 2: He's at that question. Did that guy get the money here?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 1: He did.
Speaker 4: I mean, you're gonna have to watch I.
Speaker 2: Don't want to watch it.
Speaker 1: It's pretty frantic because what happens is it's not really
Speaker 1: a burning like that room just gets enveloped in flames,
Speaker 1: and then once he gets out of his uh like
Speaker 1: fucking rope that he's tied with, he has to run
Speaker 1: back in to just like grab as many bags as possible.
Speaker 5: So it's like of money.
Speaker 1: Yeah, look he gets the bags off. I don't know,
Speaker 1: they just launched him out of a fucking canon this
Speaker 1: other thing. So now he's got it off, and I
Speaker 1: was like, all right, get the fuck out of here
Speaker 1: with the money. I need to live a life. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, Like, sorry, man, you didn't get it all.
Speaker 4: So he has to go in and get more money.
Speaker 2: The money is burning.
Speaker 7: No, why would you say that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, the visuals are very very I mean, like again,
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think old Jimmy aka mister
Speaker 1: Beasts is still tethered to the earth like the rest
Speaker 1: of us are.
Speaker 5: Well, they did a study, right, there's a once you
Speaker 5: reach a certain level of wealth, you actually like they
Speaker 5: like scientifically proven, you start to lose empathy in your
Speaker 5: brain because you don't need it anymore. Run that study.
Speaker 2: You can just look at him.
Speaker 4: I know it's truly like, that's the least necessary I'm
Speaker 4: glad science figure that out. I feel like the least
Speaker 4: necessary study of them. I just look around anecdotally, just
Speaker 4: look at these people who are like normal normal. No oh,
Speaker 4: what the just happened? Oh they reached the plateau where
Speaker 4: they got two hundred million subscribers. Yeah that rates.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Anyways, maybe maybe we'll all be raptured up, or maybe
Speaker 4: Jimmy'll be raptured up.
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe the poor will be raptured up.
Speaker 5: Dude, I hope that guy doesn't get raptured up, because
Speaker 5: if he did, went through all that to get that
Speaker 5: money and then he gets sucked up into heaven, I'd.
Speaker 7: Be so sorry.
Speaker 1: Can't take it with you, mister beast is there. It
Speaker 1: stays with me here in tell.
Speaker 4: Well, Mallory, Ria is such a pleasure having you both
Speaker 4: on the daily zeitgeist? Where can people find you? Follow
Speaker 4: you all that.
Speaker 5: Good stuff reading on everywhere? You get podcasts? I'm not
Speaker 5: currently online, Uh, but Bria, people can find you.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately you don't have to go listen to our podcast
Speaker 3: Reading Smut, Reading Glasses. They're both on the Maximum but network.
Speaker 3: You can find me an Instagram, Instagram occasionally bread Grant nice.
Speaker 4: Is there a We usually ask people if there's a
Speaker 4: work of media that they've been enjoying. I would love
Speaker 4: to hear if there's a book recommendation from the past
Speaker 4: year that you would recommend that does or doesn't involve
Speaker 4: fucking a balloon, animal wear wolf.
Speaker 3: Okay, but you want smut specific No, it doesn't need
Speaker 3: to be smut.
Speaker 4: Actually I would love it if it wasn't, but because
Speaker 4: I want I have my feel of that stuff.
Speaker 5: Thanks Briah, it's one of your favorite books of the year.
Speaker 3: I can give you a like a smut adjacent book,
Speaker 3: which is a book called sky Daddy by Kate Folk.
Speaker 3: She put out a good book of short stories a
Speaker 3: couple years ago that I really loved, and then she
Speaker 3: wrote this books called sky Daddy, and is a woman
Speaker 3: who's obsessed with plane crashes and being on a plane
Speaker 3: when it crashes, and it is sort of sexually obsessed
Speaker 3: with that. So she constantly uses her money to go
Speaker 3: get on a plane hoping in.
Speaker 2: The hopes that will crash.
Speaker 3: It is obviously a strange book, but for me, it
Speaker 3: was one of the most interesting characters that I've read
Speaker 3: in the past few years. Like just a fascinating woman
Speaker 3: who knows this one thing she really wants. It obviously
Speaker 3: makes her a little bit of an outcast in her
Speaker 3: community of friends, the few friends she has as they
Speaker 3: discover this about her.
Speaker 2: But fantastic book, wonderfully written.
Speaker 3: If you're looking for something sort of strange, but it's
Speaker 3: like a a literary fiction book, can definitely recommend.
Speaker 1: Wow, So is it kind of like Cronenberg's Crash, Yeah
Speaker 1: in that way or not, not that it's a wonder one,
Speaker 1: but I'm just saying like that's sort of like there's
Speaker 1: an intrigue to this sort of being in a precarrier situation.
Speaker 2: Exactly. Exactly, Yeah, Yeah, Mallori.
Speaker 5: I have quite a few. But because it's October first
Speaker 5: and it's spooky season, I'm going to recommend a book
Speaker 5: that you are reading. Bria and I have already read.
Speaker 5: We're gonna have the author on our show. We're really
Speaker 5: excited about it. It's Fiend by Alma Katsu. The pitch
Speaker 5: is wicked quick, it's just succession, but with a demon.
Speaker 5: It is about a very rich family in New York
Speaker 5: City speaking of lacking empathy, who they control this vast
Speaker 5: empire of businesses, and turns out that the thing that
Speaker 5: is fueling all of that success is a demon that
Speaker 5: the head of the family controls, who makes bad things
Speaker 5: happen to people who cross them. It's wicked, quick read.
Speaker 5: It's not super It's very spooky, but it's not scary,
Speaker 5: like there's no like jump scares or anything. It's really
Speaker 5: really fun. It's really well written. It's a quick read.
Speaker 5: Could not recommend it more for October.
Speaker 7: Hell, what's it called again?
Speaker 1: Fiende Fien Fien.
Speaker 4: Also a great Playboy Cardi song Miles I'll Find You
Speaker 4: as their working media you've been enjoying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, find me everywhere at Miles of Gray. Uh, if
Speaker 1: you want to hear me talk about ninety day Fiance,
Speaker 1: I do that over at four to twenty day Fiance,
Speaker 1: I'll work. I like it's from at Stone Kettle dot
Speaker 1: Besky dot Social just posted Pete Hegseth is basically a
Speaker 1: meat cyber truck and I'm like, yeah, that that's actually
Speaker 1: that is meat cyber truck. Is probably the best description
Speaker 1: I've heard. So yeah, good, good one, good one.
Speaker 4: You can find me on Twitter at jack Underscore, Brian
Speaker 4: on Blue Sky at jacko Bee the number one I
Speaker 4: got no media for you. Go read Sky Daddy and Fiend.
Speaker 4: I think those are those are good ideas. I'll try
Speaker 4: and come up with a book.
Speaker 5: You can eat a pile of potatoes mixed with uh
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so just try try this stuff. I'm telling you guys,
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Speaker 4: You can find us on Twitter and Blue Sky at
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Speaker 4: can go to this episode wherever you're listening to it,
Speaker 4: and there at the bottom you will find the footnote,
Speaker 4: which is where we link off to the information that
Speaker 4: we talked about in today's episode. We also link off
Speaker 4: to a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles,
Speaker 4: is there a song that you think that people might.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've been doing a lot of electronic music,
Speaker 1: so I want to get back to like people playing instruments,
Speaker 1: and why not do it?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 4: Got miles just took out as acoustic guitar. Got on
Speaker 4: my accordion. Guys, I'm learning bagpipes. Just give me a
Speaker 4: little bit to get these things formed up.
Speaker 1: But this bad, bad, not good track. It's called Your
Speaker 1: Soul and Mine. It's from the album that came out
Speaker 1: last year called Mid Spiral. Thanks, what's we're r at?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 1: Are we mid Spiral right now?
Speaker 4: Ye?
Speaker 1: Spiral is pretty mid Yeah, let me as you throw
Speaker 1: that pigskin again. Yeah it's mid Yeah. Anyway, your Soul
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